Noun: Innuit in-yoo-it
- A member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada, Greenland, Alaska or eastern Siberia); the Algonquians called them Eskimo (‘eaters of raw flesh’) but they call themselves the Inuit (‘the people’)
- Eskimo, Esquimau, Inuit
Derived forms: Innuits
Type of: American Indian, Amerindian, Native American